Human Behavior and the Broad Social Trends ...

Human behavior and the broad social trends driving the global financial
crisis, globalization and the economy in 2010, Part I

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I have been appearing with Jim Willie in a podcast on the unfolding economic
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In order to fully grasp the enormity of what is unfolding and to understand
the upcoming Tedbits 2010 Outlook, I have penned two essays which will be presented
over the next two weeks. Beginning in January, I am going to be doing a tour-de-force
2010 Outlook, spanning what you can expect in 2010 both fundamentally and technically.

Part One is entitled "The Something-for-Nothing Personality", which appears
in the final decades of the demise of EMPIRES and is the catalyst and driving
force behind the collapse of the economies in which they reside. They vote
for a living and ask public servants to confiscate wealth from others and transfer
it to themselves. This group is fully in control of the G7 and are crony capitalists,
elites, public servants, trade unionists and welfare recipients, just to name
a few. Locusts, which strip economies BARE and eat the roots of wealth generation
until the empire collapses under the weight of inextinguishable debt, unpayable
entitlements and sovereign defaults through various means.

Conversely, Part Two next week is entitled the "I Will Work 60 hours a Week
for a Better Life for Myself and My Family." this personality is diametrically
opposed to the "something for nothing" personality. They take nothing for granted,
they are rugged individualists and have the work and savings habits upon which
wealthy societies and economies are built. Wealth creation, rising middle classes
and REAL incomes explode higher in the same manner the United States and Europe
once did.

In order to understand that there is no escape from the final debacles in
the G7 or triumphs in the emerging world you must understand HUMAN behavior
and motivation. Large opportunities reside amidst the destruction or rising
empires that these people create; in fact, the largest fortunes in history
count these periods when the seeds where planted. By using Mal-investments
created during the credit bubbles and buying them for pennies on the dollar
as they fall into insolvency or by investing in societies in which rising middles
classes present untold opportunities as these emerging economies ascend into
developed societies.

"According to the US Debt Clock (http://www.usdebtclock.org take
a look, its ugly), the current US population is 308 million. Of that total
population, just over 35 percent (108.7 million) are taxpayers. The rest
are those who pay no net tax, government employees, dependents and those
who are unemployed and/or on welfare. These percentages would be similar
in any nation with a mature welfare state.

If you subtract Americans under the age of 18 from the almost 200 million
Americans who do not pay tax, the US is in a situation where many more people
vote for a living than work for one. This too is an inevitable end result
of any mature welfare state. The fact remains that in the US, 108 million
productive people are supporting almost 200 million drones. Those same 108
million people are paying the ever increasing interest bill on the so-called "public
debt". And finally, those same 108 million people are the only REAL source
of the wherewithal to eventually repay the debts...As long as more people
vote for a living than work for one in the US, that simply is NOT going to
happen. A productive minority CANNOT support a non productive majority."

Thank you, Bill, for summation of the enormity of the something for nothings
in the land of the world's RESERVE currency. The demise of the G7 financial
and monetary systems looms as the wealth-creating sectors endure slavery under
the whip of their masters and wealth creation expires to be replaced by the
printing press. Take the math a little further as the top ten percent of taxpayers
pay over 90% of the taxes, so in actuality 10.8 million people of 308 million
are pulling the tax wagon. Just 3 % of the population is paying the majority
of taxes. What's going to happen when the beltway raises taxes on these people
to 50 or 60% and they decide it's not worth it to work hard anymore? Can you
say disaster? California income tax receipts have collapsed under the same
recipe.

Buy and hold is dead except for a few asset classes, but opportunities
will abound during the next several years, the MISPRICINGS of virtually
every asset class WILL BE RESOLVED higher or lower and provide unbelievable
opportunities for PREPARED investors. I believe the greatest stock buying
opportunity in history lies on the near horizon, and will be from levels
(LOWER) you won't believe.

Selling opportunities abound in stocks and especially bonds (IOU's payable
in IOU's, how obscene) of all types. Currency markets will zoom higher
and lower depending on the fiscal and monetary responsibility or irresponsibility
of the various central banks and public servants in charge of their respective
countries. Economic decoupling has been on plain display during the last
two years and the financial markets are often NOT the face of the economies
in which they reside. You must learn to fix your paper currencies and make
money in rising and falling markets. To learn more click here.

This goes hand in hand with currency debasement and credit-based monetary
systems. During the latter stages of the demise of empires wealth creation
fails as the "something for nothing" personality ATTACKS the last vestiges
of the productive elements of their economies and societies, thus creating
falling incomes which the financial authorities attempt to fill through MONEY
printing and what is currently called Quantitative Easing (central bank monetization
of government spending).

During these periods NO ONE knows the purchasing power of the currency in
which ANY asset is PRICED as the US Dollars, Euros, Swiss Francs and UK Pounds
are printed almost limitlessly to RESCUE the system in question -- the purchasing
power is always undergoing discovery up or down. You can see this in the demise
of every credit-based monetary system in history, including but not limited
to the Weimar Republic, Argentina and Zimbabwe. Never in history has this type
of financial and monetary system been able to avoid its demise in the manner
which is unfolding at this time.

Now click here for the commentary on the "Something for Nothing" personality,
it is lengthy and detailed but ESSENTIAL for understanding the 2010 Outlook
and beyond.

In conclusion: The most recent Health Care REFORM is a perfect example of
the "Something for Nothing" personality at work; thousands of earmarks and
quid pro quo to bribe one special interest or another to agree, always with
the cost of the agreement sent to someone else who is not at the political
banquet table -- they are the main course of the something for nothings.

Public servant, elites, crony capitalists, big-trade unions, and special interests
(the people described by the privateer quote) are legislating benefits for
themselves of one sort or another at the expense of small business, non politically-connected
entities, such as the millions of members of the Chamber of Commerce and National
Federation of Independent Businesses as well as the public (the public that
supports this does not understand they are the patsies and the ones that oppose
it do!)

HEALTHCARE reform (in name only, it is a criminal enterprise being born):
Legislating 17% of the US economy to flow through their sticky little fingers
and allow them to SELL regulatory relief through campaign support of one type
or another. Rent seekers and shakedown artists who produce nothing and legislate
for their interest rather then the public at large. Obscene, immoral and corrupt
is the proper description of these people. Of course they and the main stream
media say they are doing this to SAVE you!

Please notice that The President has just conducted two summits, one on the
economy and the other on jobs. In attendance were the Senate and House public
serpents, big banks and brokers, big trade unions, the largest corporations
in the world (who work offshore with the blessings of the public servants and
big trade unions) and predators on the private sector. Conspicuously absent
was the backbone of the private sector such as the Chamber of Commerce (3 million
plus small businesses) and the NFIB (National Federation Independent Businesses.)
These are the prey of the aforementioned group and it includes you, your neighbors
and everyone who actually produces more then they consume. Public serpents
call them the "RICH". This is outrageous; summits on jobs and economics and
the REAL private sector WAS NOT INVITED! Ob@manation.

This is not doom and gloom; it is reality that is packed with opportunities
as volatility.

in all markets expands to price in this unfolding global financial crisis.
And, volatility is opportunity for the prepared investor. In today's world
you must take advantage of these situations as they unfold. Currencies, stocks,
bonds, commodities, natural resources and more will rise or fall to reflect
the economic maelstrom as it continues to unfold. Learn how to do so.

I will be appearing at the Freedom Fest World Economic Summit on January 31
through Feb. 2, 2010 at Atlantis Paradise Island Resort, Bahamas (www.freedomfest.com/wes/).

I urge you to attend as I will be doing two break-out sessions on the unfolding
economics of the global financial crisis and how to assemble investments to
meet its challenges.

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Mr. Andros attended the University of San Diego, and the University of Miami,
majoring in Marketing, Economics and Business Administration. He began his
career as a broker in 1983, and has worked his way to the creation of TraderView
of which he is the CEO. Mr. Andros is active in Economic analysis and
brings this information and analysis to his clients on a regular basis. Ty
prides himself on his personal preparation for the markets as they unfold.
Developing a loyal clientele.

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